Choose your post-Linux self-exile

[kroc@oldbytes.space]

@flyingsaceur 8-bits was enough! A 6502 or Z80 machine will do me fine.

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

@flyingsaceur HP-UX on PA-RISC or Itanium in a burnt-down data centre.

[wec@fv390.hs.bam.moe]

VM/CMS on an IBM S/390 mainframe in a mostly-gutted datacenter

wait why am i just describing my current computing scenario

[michael@social.chrisco.me]

@flyingsaceur 9front!

http://www.9front.org/

[littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network]

@flyingsaceur gonna continue grinding away on my own OS

[decay@gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com]

@flyingsaceur TOPS-20 on an illegally-obtained XKL TOAD-2 somewhere in the San Juans

[la@chaos.social]

@flyingsaceur Fanuc flavored G-Code on a nineties 5-axis CNC mill in a secret underground prototyping shop (working for some crazy scientist in the adjacent secret underground lab, obv.)

[lynx@ohai.social]

@flyingsaceur Pre-slop Linux fork on an x86 so I can still make and play games, plus maybe some BSD on an MNT Reform for everything else.

[dtl@8bitorbust.info]

@flyingsaceur Sinclair Spectrum in a shed.

[flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange]

@dtl extra points for alliteration, well played

[elithebearded@fed.qaz.red]

@flyingsaceur

I went with A/UX, but where's "NetBSD on a discarded Wall Street workstation in NYC subway tunnel"?

[guyjantic@infosec.exchange]

@flyingsaceur my vote was 100% driven by the amount of sunlight in the environment

[darkuncle@infosec.exchange]

@flyingsaceur I feel *seen* by this poll

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@flyingsaceur

BSDi on a pentium on a forested mountain top.

[martyfouts@mastodon.online]

@flyingsaceur NetBSD on a Danger Sidekick LX in a cabin in Montana.

[doomhammerng@mastodon.social]

@flyingsaceur

SGI? After all these years?

Always.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@flyingsaceur

Haiku on a Dolch PAC 65 in a Welsh long house

[nobody@mastodon.acm.org]

@flyingsaceur Not a fan of lua, but esp32 sounds realistic enough to power and easier to come by in the Wastelands

[phil_b_reed@mastodon.social]

@flyingsaceur Tru64 UNIX on an AlphaServer 800 in an unfurnished apartment high in a new york sliver with it's facade wall missing.

[flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange]

@flyingsaceur OSF/1 oh yeah